I think the Ladder Theory is pretty valid for a generalisation.
Anyway, a few words about the friendship-sex thing: It all comes down to interpretation. The theory obviously proposes that a guy can't be friends with a girl who he finds attractive. Many would dispute that, but provided the interpretation is 'correct', it can pretty much be deemed as true. I.e a guy-girl friendship is only such, when both a guy AND a girl consider each other as friends. Hence if one of them regards the other as a friend, yet the converse doesn't hold, there is not a proper friendship between the two. So the Ladder Theory simply makes that friendship-sex proposition around that notion, that is, the GIRL can regard the guy as strictly a friend, yet the guy technically doesn't regard the attractive girl as a friend, because he would like to bone her. That is, he regards her as MORE than a friend, hence there isn't a 'proper friendship', by the definition I made above. So really, it's a semantic thing.
Personally, I've had atleast one thought of boning every one of my attractive female friends. Ones which I've never had that thought about, I wouldn't regard them as attractive then.
Anyway, a few words about the friendship-sex thing: It all comes down to interpretation. The theory obviously proposes that a guy can't be friends with a girl who he finds attractive. Many would dispute that, but provided the interpretation is 'correct', it can pretty much be deemed as true. I.e a guy-girl friendship is only such, when both a guy AND a girl consider each other as friends. Hence if one of them regards the other as a friend, yet the converse doesn't hold, there is not a proper friendship between the two. So the Ladder Theory simply makes that friendship-sex proposition around that notion, that is, the GIRL can regard the guy as strictly a friend, yet the guy technically doesn't regard the attractive girl as a friend, because he would like to bone her. That is, he regards her as MORE than a friend, hence there isn't a 'proper friendship', by the definition I made above. So really, it's a semantic thing.
Personally, I've had atleast one thought of boning every one of my attractive female friends. Ones which I've never had that thought about, I wouldn't regard them as attractive then.